An adversary may exfiltrate data in fixed size chunks instead of whole files or limit packet sizes below certain thresholds. This approach may be used to avoid triggering network data transfer threshold alerts.
Take a file/directory, split it into 5Mb chunks
Supported Platforms: macOS, CentOS, Ubuntu, Linux
cd /tmp/
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/victim-whole-file bs=25M count=1
split -b 5000000 /tmp/victim-whole-file
ls -l